Will Durant
Will Durant (born November 5, 1885, North Adams, United States; died 1981), was an American historian, philosopher and writer. Durant's honours include Presidential Medal of Freedom and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Will Durant’s zodiac sign was Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was Wood Rooster, with Life Path 11 in numerology.
Scorpio, Chinese zodiac was 
Wood Rooster, with 
Life Path 11 in numerology.Your match with Will
Will Durant’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Lightkeeper
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 11 is traditionally called a master path. It represents intuition, sensitivity and noticing patterns before they become obvious.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 11, on the intuitive plane.
How common is the name Will in the U.S.?
#1195
US rank in 2025
~46,610
Americans share it since 1880
1888
its peak year
The SSA recorded 625 American boys and 5 girls named Will in 1885: 27th among boys and 1,196th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Will’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
8
Expression · direction and scale
4
Soul Urge · solid ground
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on W (5) and closes on L (3). The value it repeats most is 3, which numerology reads as voice.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Will’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
11 · 5 · 7 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Topaz, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌸 Green Orchid
Gold · Crimson · Botanical green
The record
What sets Will apart
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction came in 1968, when Will Durant was 83.
The schooling ran through St. Peter's Preparatory School and Saint Peter's University.
Will Durant lies at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
On the family side, Will Durant was married Ariel Durant.
Wikipedia files Will Durant under Saint Peter's University alumni, Philosophers of history and Theorists on Western civilization.
Vivien Leigh (1913) and Art Garfunkel (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- St. Peter's Preparatory School, Saint Peter's University and Columbia University
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1968)
- Buried at
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Will, according to the stars
Core essence
Will does not do surface. The core of Will is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Will is earned slowly and never given lightly.
How Will wants to be loved
Will wants to be loved by someone who is also their favourite travel companion. Venus in Sagittarius needs laughter, honesty and a long leash, and gives the same. Possessiveness kills it; adventure feeds it. Go somewhere new with Will and watch them fall for you again.
How Will creates
How Will makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Will builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Will is sharp and confident, a Rooster year, and their gut reaction is to say the true thing out loud. Observant, hardworking, honest, and proud of looking the part. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 11 is the visionary, a master number. Will is here to see what others cannot yet and to say it, an antenna for the mood of the moment. Intuitive, inspiring, sometimes overwhelmed by their own sensitivity, and learning to ground the vision in something real.
Triggers
Triggers: being ignored, or being made small. Mars in Leo means Will fights with pride and flair and needs the win to be seen. Generous in victory, dramatic in defeat, and never, ever petty for long. Give them the stage and the fire becomes warmth.
Computed from Will's birth date. Working below.
Where Will sits
Six lines
Will’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You may be drawn to big possibilities. The practical follows after the vision.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
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Three stars chosen from the real sky above North Adams on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over North Adams that night
Computed for 42.70°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at North Adams was Mirach, in Andromeda, 77.0° up.
The brightest star above the horizon was Vega in Lyra, and 97 catalog stars were up in all.
North Adams sits at 42.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from North Adams at all: they sit past the −47.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
Sun 47° below the horizon, Moon down and 1% lit at new moon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- North Adams, United States
The death is recorded at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County in 1981.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Will Durant: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Will's chart is
Chart pattern score
22 / 100 · Reassuringly normal
T-square onto Mars
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Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Will Durant's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of November 5, 1885, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Scorpio means →Wood Rooster
Wood RoosterSharp eye, sharper tongue.
Will Durant was born on November 5, 1885, which falls in a Wood Rooster year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Rooster means →Life Path 11
Life Path 11Receives more than it reasons.
Will Durant's birth date, November 5, 1885, reduces to Life Path 11 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 11 means →What stands out in Will’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Will Durant's date-only chart is Venus square Jupiter, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Air/Water emphasis, with three planets in each.
- Will Durant combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the intuitive plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Lightkeeper.
Will’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 22° to 5° Libra or Scorpio depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussquareJupiter0.0° to 0.7° orb
Will’s affections grind against their growth.
stableVenustrineMars0.2° to 0.8° orb
Will’s affections flow straight into their drive.
stableMercuryoppositionNeptune0.3° to 1.9° orb
Will’s mind pulls against their imagination from across the wheel.
stableMercurysextileJupiter2.0° to 3.3° orb
stableSaturnsquareUranus2.4° orb
stableMercurysquareMars2.5° to 3.4° orb
stableUranustrinePluto3.2° to 3.3° orb
stableJupitertrineNeptune3.6° to 3.8° orb
stableMarssquarePluto3.7° to 4.2° orb
stableMarssquareNeptune3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn4.8° to 5.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire2 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water3 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed4 of 10
- Mutable3 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Will’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 15°24′ (moves 0.05° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresScorpio 27°36′ (moves 0.42° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosSagittarius 6°58′ (moves 0.64° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 8°24′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°30′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 0.2°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Ceres sextile Jupiter 0.6°
- Ceres square Mars 0.9°
- Eros sextile Uranus 1.2°
- Ceres conjunction Mercury 2.0°
- Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.9°
Will’s dominant planets
1. ♇ Pluto9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Jupiter, Pluto; 4 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter6 pts
disposes Venus; 5 major aspects
Configurations in Will’s chart
T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Neptune, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.- T-square onto Mars · Mercury, Pluto, MarsAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Jupiter 0.3°
- Mars semi-sextile Jupiter 0.3°
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.5°
- Saturn semi-square Neptune 1.3°
Will’s family here
One relative of Will Durant also has a chart on AsterNym.
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Will’s cards
Computed from November 5, 1885. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
JusticeAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen LightkeeperWestern zodiac
ScorpioChinese zodiac
Rooster 酉Life Path
11 · Visionary♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
乙
yin Wood
酉
Rooster
Metal
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Will’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q333911 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Bill Murphy, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Will Durant at Wikipedia and IMDb.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Will Durant.
Quick answers about Will Durant’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Will Durant?
- Will Durant was a Scorpio: born November 5, 1885, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day.
- What was Will Durant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Rooster, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 5, 1885 birth.
- What was Will Durant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 11, calculated in numerology.
- What was Will Durant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Will Durant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Will Durant's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
